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CS6: Thank you Adobe!
I just finished editing my first project with the CS6 trial and I wanted to say THANKS to the Adobe team for delivering a product that is simple, intuitive, stable and powerful (and adheres to the editing paradigm that we all know and love)…
I took a big risk in transferring a project over to CS6 in the middle of a tight 2 day turn around. I’d started the cut in CS5.5, but really felt that the project would benefit from the new 3D extrusion tools in AE CS6. In the end, it turned out to be no risk at all. Premiere didn’t crash once during a solid day of editing. AE crashed a few times, but that was due to outdated CUDA drivers and me pushing it too hard with the 3D extrusion on complex fonts.
Premiere is now easier and faster to work with than ever before – and feels much more like home for an ex-FCP user like myself. With CUDA support, pretty much everything plays back in realtime. Full trackpad support on the timeline (up and down now, not just left and right) makes it quicker to move around and find the clips you want. Selectable edit points make trimming edits far easier, as well as making it simpler to apply transitions. The new adjustment layers proved to be very helpful for applying effects across a number of clips. And dynamic linking worked like a charm (also loved the global dynamic cache in AE).
This release is pretty much everything that I’d hoped for from Apple in FCP8. I can’t see myself going back to FCP7 unless I’m forced to at gunpoint.
Thanks again Adobe!
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I agree. I’m in the middle of a rather large project as well and after weighing the pros and cons (my “brain said no, don’t it” but my heart knew the advances in CS6 could really help me out) I decided to switch over, mid-project. After getting things put back in their place and editing all night, I’m really impressed with a lot of what’s new. Hover Scrubbing is a godsend when dealing with a lot of b-roll. There’s so many little hidden tweaks (like additional options if you have to adjust audio gain) that it’s fun editing again. I love that during thumbnails, it’ll tell you which clips you’ve already used in a sequence and how many times… just cool things like that.
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I moved from Premiere Pro as a primary editing solution when FCP6 was release. I would go back and forth between the two, but I gravitated towards FCP6 for multiple project support, Prores, reliability, elegant interface and smooth responsive timeline playback. I was relatively content. Before I got around to upgrading to FCP7, FCPX was released. That was a shattering experience for most of us. We lamented, complained and mostly felt abandoned. The boards became tiresome with all the whining and complaing about FCPX. But then dawn broke. There was an opportunity for some company to provide editors with a solution that respected their workflows; that didn’t jam a new fangled half thought-out beta paradigm down everyone’s throat with a “like it or lump it” attitude.
I am proud of the folks at the Adobe software engineering group for rising to the occasion. No smoke and mirrors. No hype. Just a really nice editing solution that takes the best of what Premiere Pro was and enhances it. And they took the opportunity to take some of the nicer features of Media Composer and FCP as well and elegantly blend those into the product as well.
I say it is a game changer. It will be interesting to watch the reaction of editors as they discover, or rediscover Adobe editing solutions.
Yes, thanks Adobe. Brilliant stuff. This latest effort represents a lot of hard work and a lot of hard listening. I for one appreciate it very much.
Norman Lang
Lang Productions
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Thanks for the kind words.
If anyone is looking for more information about the CS6 applications, here are some good places to start:
what’s new and changed in Premiere Pro CS6: https://adobe.ly/HDKYpx
what’s new and changed in After Effects CS6: https://adobe.ly/HCGNMJ
what’s new and changed in Audition CS6: https://adobe.ly/Hz45o8———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
product manager, professional video software
After Effects team blog
Premiere Pro team blog
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